If no electricity then you will have mold and or frozen pipes etc. 

Frozen pipes, busted toilets, freezing paint and you can't put a furnace in because it will get jacked.

In my understanding anything that’s under contract should be frozen until the judge set an executor for the sellers estate.

Your dad is right CA is overvaluedforget about your dadMake your own wayYou have been mentally relying on your dad too long already You are frozen Get out in the world and invest where you want.  

Having dewinterized a number of houses in the past I was surprised that I did not notice any visible signs of frozen pipes.

I believe South Holland has frozen the number of licenses, so investor would have to buy property from an existing landlord in order to not get in trouble with the city.Hope this helps.

As atarget mentioned, it may take the form of an RTC type of entity that address the S&L mess.This plan if passed would raise our national debt from $10.6 trillion to $11.3 trillion to make room for the massive rescue.However, as of this morning the proposal does not specify what the government would get in return from financial companies for the federal help.Something mentioned by Treasury Secretary Paulson should be considered; "I am convinced that this bold approach will cost American families far less than the alternative — a continuing series of financial institution failures and frozen credit markets unable to fund economic expansion," "The financial security of all Americans ... depends on our ability to restore our financial institutions to a sound footing."

I require my tenants to have the utilities in their name, if they do not pay it is on them, not me, but I have all my properties in my name as a backup so if someone doesn't pay, the water and electric is not shut off so I do not end up with frozen pipes.

Had I not gone to the property would have had frozen pipes.

Equity frozen and isn't real until it's defrosted.